@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012, author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al and Amoros, G. and Cabrera Urban, S. and Castillo Gimenez, V. and Costa, M. J. and Ferrer, A. and Fiorini, L. and Fuster, J. and Garcia, C. and Garcia Navarro, J. E. and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. and Hernandez Jimenez, Y. and Higon-Rodriguez, E. and Irles Quiles, A. and Kaci, M. and Lacasta, C. and Lacuesta, V. R. and Marti-Garcia, S. and Mi{\~A}{\textpm}ano, M. and Mitsou, V. A. and Moles-Valls, R. and Moreno Llacer, M. and Oliver Garcia, E. and Perez Garcia-Esta{\~A}{\textpm}, M. T. and Romero Adam, E. and Ros, E. and Salt, J. and Sanchez Martinez, V. and Solans, C. A. and Soldevila, U. and Sanchez, J. and Torro Pastor, E. and Valladolid Gallego, E. and Valls Ferrer, J. A. and Villaplana Perez, M. and Vos, M. and Wildauer, A.", title="Measurement of the t-channel single top-quark production cross section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector", journal="Physics Letters B", year="2012", publisher="Elsevier Science Bv", volume="717", number="4-5", pages="330--350", abstract="We report a measurement of the cross section of single top-quark production in the t-channel using 1.04 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Selected events feature one electron or muon, missing transverse momentum, and two or three jets, exactly one of them identified as originating from a b quark. The cross section is measured by fitting the distribution of a multivariate discriminant constructed with a neural network, yielding sigma(t) = 83 +/- 4 (stat.)(-19)(+20) (syst.) pb, which is in good agreement with the prediction of the Standard Model. Using the ratio of the measured to the theoretically predicted cross section and assuming that the top-quark-related CKM matrix elements obey the relation vertical bar V-tb vertical bar >> vertical bar V-ts vertical bar, vertical bar V-td vertical bar, the coupling strength at the W-t-b vertex is determined to be vertical bar V-tb vertical bar = 1.13(-0.13)(+0.14). If it is assumed that vertical bar V-tb vertical bar <= 1 a lower limit of vertical bar V-tb vertical bar > 0.75 is obtained at the 95{\%} confidence level.", optnote="WOS:000310863300008", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1206), last updated on Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:40:37 +0000", issn="0370-2693", doi="10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.031", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3130", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.031", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1205.3130", language="English" }